By Quin Shea, Edison Electric Institute The U.S. electric power industry is committed to improving America's air quality. Progress over the past 25 years has been real and significant and…
Power
Monthly Issue | August 15, 2006
Learning theorists tell us that one of the key reasons we don't learn from our mistakes is that we don't or won't recognize them as such. We attribute good…
To read about the history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is to read about the history of the U.S. Navy and key events in the early life of this country.…
Russia's new nuclear navy According to the Russian nuclear agency RIA Novosti, the state-owned nuclear power monopoly Rosenergoatom and the Sevmash shipyard in the Arctic port of Severodvinsk have signed…
When Des Moines–based Mid-American completed the purchase of PacifiCorp from ScottishPower in late March of this year, one of its prizes was the new, natural gas–fired 525-MW Currant Creek Power…
The well-received coal-fired plant operator staffing benchmarking study published in POWER in September 2004 by the EUCG was recently joined by two additional studies: one of plant-level engineering and technical…
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)—the world's largest private power company—traces its roots to the illumination of a lecture hall by an electric arc lamp at Tokyo's Institute of Technology on…
The 16th Annual Joint ISA POWID/EPRI Controls and Instrumentation Conference—also known as the 49th Annual POWID Symposium—was held this June in San Jose, Calif. Many of the trends driving this…
In the late 1990s, Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PSEG, based in Newark, N.J.)—like just about every other U.S. investor-owned utility—was trying to determine where in the world electricity demand…
Cape Wind's economics questioned The cited study concludes that the Cape Wind Project will "receive a 25% return on equity, 2.5 times the historical average for all corporations" when the…